If WDS is used to make a transparent wired-to-wireless-to-wired bridge, there is not wireless "repeating" and therefore no bandwidth degradation. When you have an AP repeating a wireless packet wirelessly, then you have degradation.

If WDS is used to make a transparent wired-to-wireless-to-wired bridge, there is not wireless "repeating" and therefore no bandwidth degradation. When you have an AP repeating a wireless packet wirelessly, then you have degradation.

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I agree that WDS is not inherently a repeater. But, depending on the topology you set up by controlling links with MAC addresses, you certainly can use WDS to effectively set up a layer 2 repeater with as many hops as you like. In this scenario, given that these routers have only only one radio, I would think that you get some degradation with each hop, right?